Golenkova Z.T., Goliusova Yu.V., Orekhova I.M. Contradictions and Problems of Modernization of the Social Structure of Modern Russian Society

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Abstract

The sociological term modernization describes and explains the transition from traditional forms of society to modern, that is, to industrial society and its manifestations in democratization, urbanization, social diff erentiation, individualization, bureaucratization and globalization. The theory of modernization appeared in the 1950s as an explanation of how the industrial societies of North America and Western Europe developed. The theory States that societies develop at fairly predictable stages through which they become more complex. Development depends mainly on the import of technology, as well as on a number of other political and social changes that are believed to result. Modernization of the social structure is one of the directions of modernization in General. The social structure of modern Russian society cannot be assessed as stable and unchangeable. There are changes in the system of property relations, distribution, social organization of labor. Transformation processes have led to the emergence of new social communities and their interrelations. At the same time, social transformation is characterized not only by the emergence of previously non-existing stratum entrepreneurs, self-employed, precariums, but also by the manifested inequality, stratifi cation of groups in the labor market.